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By Ella Nilsen, CNN Amid Arizona’s worsening groundwater crisis, the state’s new attorney general is vowing to crack down on foreign-owned farms that lease land from the state with the benefit of unlimited water pumping. State officials recently revoked two new well-drilling permits for a Saudi Arabian agriculture company that uses Arizona groundwater to grow

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Many airline employees have gone for years without pay raises, even after enduring difficult working conditions during the pandemic. Pilots for American Airlines voted to strike this week, and Southwest pilots plan to vote as well, but they won’t be walking off the job anytime soon — if at all —

By Ed Lavandera, Ashley Killough, Holly Yan, Josh Campbell and Mark Morales, CNN The longtime partner of a man accused of gunning down five people, including a 9-year-old, in a neighboring Texas home seemed to be cooperating with authorities — but was actually helping the suspect evade them during a dayslong manhunt, a prosecutor said

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Three brutal stabbings near the University of California at Davis in the span of five days have left two people dead and some students rattled and fearful as authorities dig for clues on who is responsible and whether the attacks were connected. The latest attack happened Monday night near campus and

By Sara Smart and Emma Tucker, CNN A man who escaped from a Mississippi jail last month with three others has been found dead in New Orleans, a sheriff said Tuesday, leaving just one of the four apparently still on the run. The body of Casey Grayson, 34, was found in a vehicle at a

By Jean Casarez, Rob Frehse and Christina Maxouris, CNN Ana Walshe, the Massachusetts mother of three who was last seen alive in January, was having an affair with a man in Washington, DC, before she went missing and had spent Thanksgiving with him in Ireland, new court documents say. That man told investigators he had

By Cheri Mossburg, Carma Hassan and Holly Yan, CNN Tech executive Bob Lee suffered knife wounds that pierced his heart and lung, according to a newly released autopsy report from the San Francisco medical examiner’s office. Lee, who cofounded the mobile payment service provider Cash App, was stabbed to death in the Rincon Hill neighborhood

By Nicole Chavez, CNN Authorities in Cleveland, Texas, placed large posters in Spanish around the city asking for help finding a man wanted for the killings of five people, but a lack of trust in law enforcement among some Latinos may be hindering those efforts, advocates say. There is fear among some Latinos, particularly immigrants,

By Eric Levenson and Brad Parks, CNN A Minnesota judge found former Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao guilty of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter for his role keeping bystanders back in the May 2020 killing of George Floyd, according to court documents filed Monday. In a 177-page verdict, Judge Peter Cahill wrote that Thao “actively

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Hundreds of hazardous industrial sites that dot the California coastline — including oil and gas refineries and sewage-treatment plants — are at risk of severe flooding from rising sea level if the climate crisis worsens, new research shows. If planet-warming pollution continues to rise unabated, 129 industrial sites are estimated to

By John Blake, CNN I was about five years old when I was abducted. It was one of the most beautiful days of my childhood. A couple of strangers lured me away from my front porch that summer afternoon. I knew they were intruders, but they somehow felt familiar. I wasn’t afraid. They were white

By Tina Burnside, Cheri Mossburg and Dakin Andone, CNN Officials in Davis, California, have lifted an overnight shelter-in-place order after they were unable to find a suspect in a knife attack late Monday — the third such incident following two fatal stabbings in less than a week near the campus of the University of California,

By Tina Burnside, Caroll Alvarado and Eric Levenson, CNN A convicted sex offender and two missing teenage girls were believed to be among seven bodies found at the man’s Oklahoma home on Monday, authorities said. Jesse L. McFadden, the 39-year-old offender, was found dead at his home in Henryetta, about 90 miles from Oklahoma City,

By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN Officials in Rochester, New York, said an investigation found no basis for criminal charges in a concert stampede in March that left three people dead. The announcement came after a months-long, multi-departmental investigation into the incident at Rochester’s Main Street Armory, the City of Rochester said in a statement. The probe

By Josh Campbell, Ed Lavandera and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A man accused of fatally shooting five people at a neighbor’s home in Texas last week, including a mother and her 9-year-old son, was arrested Tuesday evening after a dayslong manhunt, officials announced. The suspect, Francisco Oropesa, was found in a house just miles from the

By Christina Maxouris, Amy Simonson and Dianne Gallagher, CNN Federal and state law enforcement in Virginia and North Carolina are searching for two men who escaped from jail, one of whom was facing a murder charge in the death of a sheriff’s deputy. The two men escaped from a Farmville, Virginia, jail sometime over the

By Raja Razek and Zoe Sottile, CNN Seven bodies, including two that investigators believe belong to two missing teenage girls, were found Monday afternoon at an Oklahoma residence of a man who authorities were seeking in the teens’ disappearance, officials said. The bodies were found at a property in Henryetta, a city about 90 miles